Despite the fact that they had never met, a woman who was sure she had started a connection with Stranger Things actor Dacre Montgomery went through a divorce from her husband and sent roughly $8,000 ($18,161.60 FJD) to her new boyfriend.
When McKala, a US citizen, first started corresponding with a new man on an online forum, she was already married.
She had signed up for the forum in order to express her artistic side, something she never felt her husband had encouraged. She had written a post expressing her excitement to connect with other filmmakers and her search for “creative collaboration opportunities.”
McKala received a reply in response to her post from a person claiming to be a well-known actor, and it was none other than Montgomery, who portrayed Max’s elder brother Billy in the popular Netflix series Stranger Things.
Although she was initially “suspicious,” McKala claimed the two “really hit it off,” and she gradually came to believe that he was the Australian star. Although she was initially “suspicious,” McKala claimed the two “really hit it off,” and she gradually came to believe that he was the Australian star.
The supposed actor continued to plead for assistance from McKala, claiming that his fiancée was in charge of his money accounts.
She did as she was asked and sent him gift cards for $100 ($226.60300 FJD) and $200 ($454.04 FJD), but when she added up how much she had sent him, she discovered that it had been close to $10,000 ($22,702.00 FJD).
McKala contacted the Catfished team in an effort to learn the truth about her online romance.
The investigation team learned that the person McKala had fallen for had been utilizing stock photos from the internet to pass them off as his own in an effort to deceive McKala.
McKala accepted the reality even though she was disappointed with it, saying that “love makes you do crazy, stupid, irrational things.”
